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Original source: Article published in JTA - Jerusalem Telegraphic Agency - by Renee Ghert-Zand This story is sponsored by OneFamily. JERUSALEM — It’s easy to spot Iris Yifrach as she walks through the crowds in a packed shopping mall in central Israel. And it’s not just because she’s wearing a bright yellow blouse and matching headscarf. Yifrach has been a public figure since June 2014, when her 19-year-old son, Eyal, was kidnapped and murdered by Hamas terrorists in the West Bank. For 18 days that month, Israel and Jewish communities worldwide were gripped by his [...]

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2018-06-07T13:32:06+00:00 Press Room|Comments Off on Four years after 3 Israeli yeshiva boys were kidnapped and killed, their families find a new normal

Original source: Article published in The Jerusalem Post - by Tamara Zieve Canadians hike northern Israel alongside terror victims, organized by Israeli NGO OneFamily.. (photo credit:JONNI SUPER) Eighty-eight Jewish Canadians hiked the Golan Heights on the 10th-anniversary trek of Israeli NGO OneFamily. The organization arranges annual hikes to raise money for its work to help Israelis who have been bereaved, maimed or suffer from post-traumatic stress as a result of terrorist attacks. This year hikers explored the Golan during the five-day trip, which was organized in cooperation with One- Family’s Canadian branch. Hikers were grouped according to [...]

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2017-12-19T04:47:19+00:00 Press Room|Comments Off on Side By Side: Canadian Jews Hike Israel With Victims of Terrorism

Original source: Article published in The Jerusalem Post - by Tamara Zieve European Parliament building, Strasbourg, France. (photo credit:ARND WIEGMANN) Bereaved families of victims of terrorism sent letters of thanks to 17 European Parliament lawmakers on Tuesday after the latter protested the participation of relatives of convicted terrorists Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Sa’adat at an event about Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. The event was hosted by the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Palestine in Brussels last week. Barghouti, a popular Fatah leader, is serving five life sentences in Israeli prison for five murders. Sa’adat is [...]